With the Spanish contingent making themselves at home in the Athletes' Village with only three days to go until the Olympic Opening Ceremony, many are making use of their time by complaining about their garish uniforms, which look like your granny's special rug – the one handed down to her by her grandmother.

Many made use of idle fingers by turning to Twitter to reveal their true feelings about their Games clothing, including reigning sprint canoe gold medallist Saúl Craviotto who accompanied a picture of him in his regalia (complete with España hat and Rucksac) with the words: "At home trying on my Olympics clothes. It's best if I don't give an opinion, I will leave it up to you ..."

Meanwhile field hockey player Alex Fàbregas, who won silver in Beijing four years ago, wrote: "Olympic equipment, there are no adjectives ..."

Additionally former tennis world No 1 Carlos Moya wrote on Twitter: “Looking forward to seeing Feliciano Lopez wearing the official Olympic uniform. He’ll never have worn anything so ugly in his life.”

Que pasa, the Spanish team might ask. The kits were designed by Bosco, the company who also provided Ukraine and their homeland Russia with their Games uniforms, and the Spanish Olympic Committee (COE) took them free of charge in a special deal.

“The outfits are what we have, we cannot change them now, and were decided upon more than a year and a half ago,” Alejandro Blanco COE president told the Spanish press last week.

“When you measure the difference between paying one and a half million euros of public money and free clothes, there is no discussion.”

According to their website blurb "Bosco is the unique lifestyle brand, inspired by the passion and emotion of sport ... we offer something no one else does." Further: "Our brand is defined bu [sic] three overarching principles: support for the Olympic Movement; national pride; and an open, inclusive attitude to the world."

More worrying is the fact that Bosco, who have provided Russia with their Olympic kit for the last five summer and winter Games – since Salt Lake City in 2002 – are the general partner of the Sochi Winter Olympics in two years' time.